Quote Originally Posted by ccnyc View Post
I have this also. I take a homeopathic remedy the night before and the morning of a ride and it absolutely reduces my ride anxiety. It's like Valium without the drug haze.

My ride anxiety is not from riding clipless (been doing that for years), but from NYC riding - potholes, jerks in cars, on bicycles or on foot, going up and down the ramp on the GWB, as well as being anxious about my energy levels for the ride ahead.
I too, suffer from this type of anxiety. Especially the "energy level" part. I constantly worry and stress out over how I will feel over the course of a long ride. I deal with a lot of pain issues and the question that always sits in the back of my head before embarking on any ride is...how much pain will I be in on today's ride? I also get extremely anxious when I don't know where I am or how to get home. Happened on this morning's ride...we took a slightly different route on the way home and none of the road names were familiar to me...I started to panic a bit, not really knowing how to get back to some of the more "familiar" roads...but eventually we did stumble onto a road that we knew and got home just fine.